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| Original Title: | The Yellow Birds |
| ISBN: | 0316219363 (ISBN13: 9780316219365) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sterling, Bartle, Murph |
| Setting: | Iraq |
| Literary Awards: | New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2013), Guardian First Book Award (2012), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2013), Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2013), Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (2013) Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Prix littéraire étranger Le Monde (2013), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2012) |
Kevin Powers
Hardcover | Pages: 226 pages Rating: 3.75 | 22875 Users | 3238 Reviews
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With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic."The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.
Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
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| Title | : | The Yellow Birds |
| Author | : | Kevin Powers |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 226 pages |
| Published | : | September 6th 2012 by Little, Brown and Company |
| Categories | : | Fiction. War. Historical. Historical Fiction. Military Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.75 From 22875 Users | 3238 ReviewsJudgment Of Books The Yellow Birds
The world makes liars of us all.The Yellow Birds is a novel I will have to think about some more, and possibly read again before I feel I have a fully formed view of it. This is a text that I think is ridiculously overpraised and it is overwritten, and yet it is a good book, and at times it is beautifully written and realized.The text shifts between the present (mainly 2005, after the narrators tour of duty) and his time in country in Iraq (fall of 2004). This is an effective narrative choice asThe Yellow Birds: Kevin Powers' Novel of Young Men at WarWhy the title, The Yellow Birds? Kevin Powers took it from a traditional marching cadence that's been around a long time. A yellow birdwith a yellow billwas sitting onmy window sillI lured him in with a piece of bread and then I smashed his f**king head. Yellow birds in stepI can add little to what my friend Jeff Keeten has said about this powerful and terrible beauty of a book. While I read it first, and recommended it to him, you won't
Id like to accord Kevin Powers book the same respect I give him and all our vets back from Iraq, but a book isnt a man and a book doesnt automatically earn my deference and appreciation. I didnt dislike the novel, and I tried liking it harder even to the point of starting it for a second read as soon as I finished it. I love its opening paragraphs (shades of Hemingway there, I thought), but after that I had a hard time warming to the book which felt to me as if it was trying too hard in all its
Some people are just born to write. Kevin Powers, in this debut book, is certainly one of them. The Yellow Birds is breathtaking good, profoundly insightful and written with an incredible amount of emotional precision.Some might compare it to other war-themed books: The Naked and the Dead, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Things They Carried, or even A Separate Peace. They would, in my opinion, be misguided.This is not the quintessential book about the Iraqi War, even though the settings are
The inundated reports of wars and turmoil in the middle-east have created blind eyes and death ears to many as the death toll ever increases and people have lost count on the fallen.Death seems to not be noticed as much as it should, except that is, for those that have lost loved ones of kin, love, and friendship in these wars plaguing the earth. This story could possibly win the attention of those guilty of this and make the dead count for those readers in the alien region of understanding this
I've put off writing this review for a few days now while I mulled the book over because something in it just didn't work for me. And this, indeed, is a conundrum, because this novel should have been tailor-made for me. Generally speaking, I'm a fan of contemporary war novels. I don't enjoy them as escapist entertainment; I take them seriously and I respect them because I want to learn, I want to listen, I want to know what it's like to go to war without actually having to go to war. In some
My dad was a cold warrior, serving in the Air Force from before my birth to well into my adult years. Part of that time was spent serving in Vietnam and Thailand (and, yes, there was combat in Thailand at the time) where he was a radio operator who also served on base defense whenever his base was attacked. Apparently, this happened a few times in his stay in Southeast Asia. As a boy, being a boy, I asked my Dad "Dad, did you ever get a purple heart?". He responded "No way! I kept my ass down!
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